Wednesday, February 12, 2014

5:11 PM

The Republican Governors Association is going up on the air Feb. 19 with a TV ad it says will remind voters Dem Mary Burke was a “senior official in the failed Jim Doyle administration.”

An RGA spokesman described it as a six-figure buy. It was placed Wednesday and will run on cable statewide as well as broadcast in Wisconsin’s main media markets.

Communications director Gail Gitcho said in a statement Burke’s campaign has been based on her experience in “a job-killing, budget-busting, big government administration.”

“Mary Burke won’t share her platform, promises or plans, but her past clearly shows the direction she would take the state: backwards,” Gitcho said.

Burke spokesman Joe Zepecki fired back Wisconsin had tens of thousands more jobs when Burke was Commerce secretary under Doyle than the state has today.

"It's no surprise that given Scott Walker's economic record -- 37th in job creation, 45th in job prospects and 48th in new business starts -- he and his allies will say or do anything, no matter how untrue or ridiculous, to distract from the struggles of Wisconsin's middle class under Scott Walker," he said.